From: | Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
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To: | Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net> |
Cc: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: MD5 authentication needs help |
Date: | 2015-03-04 16:08:29 |
Message-ID: | 20150304160829.GK30405@awork2.anarazel.de |
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On 2015-03-04 11:06:33 -0500, Stephen Frost wrote:
> * Andres Freund (andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com) wrote:
> > On 2015-03-04 10:52:30 -0500, Stephen Frost wrote:
> > > The first is a "don't break anything" approach which would move the
> > > needle between "network data sensitivity" and "on-disk data sensitivity"
> > > a bit back in the direction of making the network data more sensitive.
> >
> > I think that's a really bad tradeoff for pg. There's pretty good reasons
> > not to encrypt database connections. I don't think you really can
> > compare routinely encrypted stuff like imap and submission with
> > pg. Neither is it as harmful to end up with leaked hashes for database
> > users as it is for a email provider's authentication database.
>
> I'm confused.. The paragraph you reply to here discusses an approach
> which doesn't include encrypting the database connection.
An increase in "network data sensitivity" also increases the need for
encryption.
Greetings,
Andres Freund
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